【Chapter 21】Ambush on all sides
Afra led a dozen disguised Dawn Crusaders from Prado all the way to El Town. When they arrived at Eyre www.biquge.info it was already late at night, and it was pitch black on the horizon, but the bright moon sprinkled the silver moonlight, making the earth not very dark, but hazy.
The wind gusted across the calm lake, setting off a sparkling appearance against the background of the moonlight. At the entrance to Eyre, a dim light hung high above the simple wooden gate, swaying as the evening breeze swept by. But the candle flame was not extinguished, but was protected by a group of small moths, which did not quietly surround it, as if admiring the beautiful fire. They kept crashing towards the source of the fire, but fortunately, the thin layer of lampshade prevented all this tragedy from happening......
In a hurry, Afra did not remove the armor from her body, but put on a large cloak that covered her whole body. She slumped over her body, like a sturdy old woman, or a seriously ill person. Looking at the other soldiers, they are all dressed in the same way. But fortunately, it was late at night, and people were already immersed in their dreams, and there was no one on the huge street.
With careful steps, they slowly entered the town of Eyre. Just when Afra was vigilant, a figure quickly walked out of the corner, and when he spread his hands and walked towards Afra, the soldiers in disguise touched their hands to the long sword at their waists.
Even though Afra raised his hand to stop the soldiers' behavior, when the figure approached, he realized that it was Cedric, and the dark gray trench coat on his body had already blended into the surrounding night, if it wasn't for Afra's careful sighting, the two swinging double knives at his waist, maybe they would have pulled out their weapons.
"Afra, why are you here?" "Ahhh Cedric said bluntly, waving his hand, and a dozen people silently followed him into a dark corner.
"Cedric, the Queen sent me here, how is the investigation?" Afra asked softly, embarrassed to say that she cared, so she always took Yanna to talk about things. Hearing this, Cedric smiled slightly, that masked smile was more like a hint of evil smugness in the dark night, "Sure enough, I investigated, the previous killers were here, I followed them into the tavern, and they never came out again." ”
"What now?" Cedric pondered for a moment, there was still a hint of an unconcealable smile on the corner of his mouth, the soldiers immediately looked at each other, and Afra was also confused for a while, "What are you laughing at?" After a long time, Cedric recovered from his smile, he quickly rubbed his face, and stopped smiling, "Surround them ...... for a while."
A dozen people whispered, and after hearing Cedric's words, everyone felt that his plan was seamless, even a little fuss, and if it was a few enemies, they wouldn't have to do it at all. "We might as well just rush in and take them down in one fell swoop. As soon as Afra's words fell, Cedric hurriedly said, "No, we must capture the enemy alive, this time our battle is mainly for intelligence. "Okay, listen to you. Afra said helplessly, her tone full of the woman's snuggling for the man, but all she received in response was Cedric's usual smile.
The town of El is not a small village, and the only brightly lit houses in the village are the taverns in the village. This house is not big, small or high, the blue bricks and gray tiles are no different from the surrounding residential houses, but there is an extra plaque and a lamp on the wooden door, and the wind gently blows the wooden sign not far in front of the door. The wooden sign on the pole is engraved with the word tavern, which makes people see at once what kind of place it is. And even more obvious on the side were the four or five empty barrels piled together.
After a while, Cedric emerged from the darkness around him, the corners of his mouth slightly curled, and he walked to the front of the tavern. Suddenly, he raised his arm, behind him Afra and the others suddenly ran out of the darkness, they quickly came to their respective positions, someone lurked under the window, someone lurked at the door, for a time tightly surrounded the tavern, and finally Afra from not far away, a run, a foot on the barrel, jumped into the air again, grabbed the eaves with both hands, just when she wanted to climb up, suddenly kicked in the air, a brick suddenly shattered to the ground, with this scene happened, everyone tensed their nerves.
After a few moments, seeing that there was nothing unusual in the room, and that the drunken sound could still be faintly heard, Cedric frowned, came to Afra's feet, and pushed her up. Afra, who was crouching on the roof, smiled at him embarrassedly, but he just frowned and gently put his hand to his mouth, signaling her to be quiet and careful.
Looking at the people around him who had been deployed, Cedric regained his previous smile, and the corners of his mouth turned slightly up to the door. But he didn't walk in directly, but grabbed his hair with both hands, because there was no mirror, he could only sort out the most handsome hairstyle by feeling, but this scene suddenly made the soldiers lurking next to him feel a burst of surprise, and the most incredible thing was that he put his finger in his mouth, and then wiped his saliva from the corner of his eye.
Cedric nodded knowingly to the soldier beside him, then pushed the door straight and walked in, and the lively house instantly became silent, but he didn't care about this, but covered his face, sighed heavily, and walked to the bar. When he reached the bar, he found a place to sit down, then fell on top of it, choking.
Seeing this, the owner of the bar glanced at Cedric suspiciously, and at the same time looked at the customers behind him. Seeing that the guests nodded, the boss asked with concern, "Young man, what's wrong?" After a long time, Cedric deliberately made a sobbing appearance, "I... My wife ran away with someone......" Seeing his sad appearance, the boss immediately poured him a glass of wine.
"Come on, get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows, there is nothing that can't be passed. Hearing this, Cedric nodded silently, and the guests behind him also returned to the lively atmosphere just now, and they drank heartily. The only difference is that in their faint voices, the content of the conversation is either murder or plunder. If they thought Cedric was a villager in El Town, they shouldn't have said that, unless they didn't care too much about outsiders.
Thinking of this, Cedric wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand and drank the wine from the bar. He looked sideways and saw a woman sitting at a table in the corner talking to a man. Cedric's position is just right, and you can see the woman's delicate face and the chic hair on her forehead, this woman is Kelly.
At the moment when Cedric peeked at this, Kelly also raised her head, her cherry-like little mouth with a faint evil smile on it, and a pair of watery eyes slowly narrowed, as if with a gentle smile. The moment they looked at each other, Cedric froze in place, perhaps attracted by Kelly's appearance, or perhaps he didn't expect Kelly to look at him.
Just when Cedric was stunned, Kelly quickly grabbed the table knife on the table and threw it quickly, so fast that no one could even see her raised arm. Seeing the silver light coming, Cedric was not in a hurry, and instinctively reached out to hold the dinner knife, but fortunately, the blade of the dinner knife was not sharp enough. The sword was only a finger's width away from Cedric's eyes.
This scene made everyone in the room stunned, and those guests quickly pulled out the short knives on their waists. And Cedric also got up and stood up, he smiled, put the dinner knife in his pocket, and at the same time pulled out the pair of slender double knives at his waist, "Beauty, we meet again." As soon as he finished speaking, Kelly picked up the candle from the menorah and threw it vigorously on the roof.
Before Cedric could realize, the roof suddenly exploded, and a huge cloud of smoke filled the room, and Afra fell to the table in the room, kicking the man in front of Kelly in the face, and the man passed out screaming. At this time, the soldiers outside heard the strange movement and came in from the outside, but as soon as they kicked open the door, there was a cloud of smoke and dust in front of them, and everything was vague.
Cedric coughed twice, raised his arm to cover his mouth and nose, and when the smoke and dust gradually cleared, he saw that the killers in the house had climbed to the broken roof, and Kelly was also standing on the dining table, smiling and waving his hand at Cedric, he was about to rush up to stop her, but Kelly jumped hard, and at the same time took the hands of his companion and climbed onto the roof.
"Afra, look at that, leave me alone!" Cedric hurriedly turned around, pushed away the soldiers who were in front of the door, and ran straight out. When the smoke cleared, the soldiers lifted Afra up from the table, clutching her waist and grinning with her teeth, apparently bruised as she fell from the roof.
At this time, two soldiers grabbed the man who had passed out on the ground and brought him to Afra, while several other soldiers brought an intact chair and placed it behind Afra. She clutched her aching waist and sat down slowly, while looking at the bloodied man in front of her.
At this time, the soldier shook him vigorously twice, his head was still shaking low, obviously not waking up, seeing this, Afu stretched out his hand to take a wine bottle on the ground, and hit him on the head hard, and the wine bottle was smashed suddenly, and the cool wine poured on his head, and at the same time, the blood slowly flowed down.
"Ah?......h Afra, on the other hand, took a deep breath and said, "Say, I don't want to talk nonsense." Hearing her words, the man looked puzzled.
Seeing this, the soldier next to him punched him the head, but what he didn't expect was this punch, which knocked him unconscious again. Afra glanced at the soldier unnaturally, and the soldier bowed his head in embarrassment. At her command, the soldiers tied the man to the seat and brought two barrels of wine at the same time.
"Wake him up. The soldier heard the order and poured the drink on the man's body, and as the wine soaked his whole body, the blood on his face was washed away. He gradually woke up, "I said, I said......" Afra got up and stood in front of the man, gently holding her chin with her hand, "Say, I'll listen." Looking at Afra's serious expression, the man blinked blankly, "What did I say?"
"You're kidding me, it looks like you haven't woken up, come on, let him sober up!" As soon as Afra's words fell, the soldier immediately lifted the bucket and threw it at the man, and Afra, who didn't have time to leave, was also splashed, and the dust on his armor slowly fell with the water. Afra looked at the soldier angrily, only to see that the soldier showed a look of fear, "My lord, you didn't say, wait a while......" The soldier whispered, and lowered his head.
Fura was speechless, and she turned around again and pinched the man's face, while smashing his foot hard. The man let out a miserable howl, but because Afra pinched his face, he didn't shout too loudly. "My patience is limited, and if I don't want to try the most painful processes, just say it to me. ”
At this time, the man nodded in a panic, and Afra let go of his hand, "Say it!" "My lord, I beg you, I don't know what to say, you ask, I know what I know, I will definitely say." "You're with them?" "I don't know them!" Hearing the man's words, Afra raised her eyebrows again, "You're still kidding me......" Afra said, rounding her arm and slapping it.
The force was so great that a mouthful of blood spit on the ground the moment the man shook his head. "Who are you?" Your Excellency...... I really don't know them, I'm a villager from Eyre, and when I entered the tavern today, they were going to invite me to drink, so I sat with them. Hearing this, Afra was even more furious, she smashed his fist in the chest again, and the man suddenly felt a feeling of his sternum shattering, and he snorted, and blood slowly flowed out of the corner of his mouth.
"Since you don't know each other, why do you want to drink together and tell me the truth!" "I... I'm greedy for a little cheap, and at the same time, the woman just now is so beautiful. At this time, Afra was really angry and didn't know what to ask, but looking at the man's appearance, he was not lying, Afra waved his hand helplessly, and several soldiers immediately surrounded him, punching and kicking the man, and violently facing each other.
Soon after, the soldiers poured water on him, causing him to come to his senses...... My lord, I said, I'll tell you everything, spare me!" The man pleaded miserably, and Afra sighed, sat down in front of him again, and pointed at him with her finger, "I'll give you one last chance!
The man nodded hurriedly, "My lord, can you ask......" "Who are they?" "It's a few men and a woman!" "......" Afra's eyebrows were raised, and when her arm was just raised, and when she was about to hit her, the man hurriedly cried. I really don't know, they dragged me for a drink, they talked a little bit about the situation in the village, nothing else, oh yes, and finally she told me that you were the real target, and you broke in before she could finish speaking, and you know the rest of the story. After the man finished speaking, he closed his eyes and was ready to be beaten.
Looking at the tense muscles of his face, Afra stopped, but when the man opened his eyes, she slapped him again, "Why didn't you just say that!" "My lord, you didn't ask me about the conversation......" Afra sat down and pondered, if the enemy's target was El Town, then what was there in El Town.
Just when Afra was puzzled, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps from outside the room, she had a keen sense of hearing, and hurriedly took out the straight-edged saber at her waist, and looked out the window, at this moment an arrow came straight from the darkness outside the house, Afra quickly dodged, and the arrow was nailed to the forehead of the man behind her.
"Ambush! dodge!" Afra shouted, and quickly rolled to the ground, falling under the table at once, while several other soldiers also frantically searched for cover, but some of the soldiers who did not come back to their senses froze in place.
Suddenly, from all over the window, countless arrows broke through the window, and two soldiers carrying buckets were instantly hit by several arrows and fell to the ground. And the man who was tied to the seat before was also hit by countless arrows, densely packed like a hedgehog. Afra, who was lying under the table, hurriedly covered her head when she saw this scene, although the man was already dead, it was still miserable. The arrows that didn't hit were crackling in the corners of the house.
Soon after, although the shooting outside the house stopped, Afra and the others still did not dare to go out of the bunker, for fear that the enemy would attack again. At this moment, suddenly torches were thrown in, and they formed ethereal phantoms in mid-air, with the rising light of fire. From the broken roof, he fell into the house, and the torches that were rolling everywhere instantly ignited when he encountered the wine all over the floor.
The man who had been killed by several arrows was engulfed in flames in an instant because he was soaked with wine, and the rest of the house began to burn flames. But the flames were still spreading relentlessly, and the soldiers who had been hiding in the bunkers, stained with sparks, ran in all directions, but when they ran to the door, they found that the wooden door had been nailed shut.
They kicked and pounded the wooden door hard, but it still didn't move. Suddenly, a gust of wind struck again, and sharp arrows flew from the window, through the raging fire, and shot at the door in unison, and suddenly the unsuspecting soldiers leaned on each other and fell to the door. This tragic scene was really watched by Afra, who was hiding under the table...... (To be continued.) )